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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

I watched two incredible movies the last weekend. So I am going to break
the wedding diary series and put this piece in. Both movies were
amazing- both were about children and both were funny and intelligent
and wonderfully entertaining. In fact, it is only as I type that I
realize they are in completely different languages, with drastically
different budgets, and depicting almost different ends of the economic
spectrum. The first movie was "Kaaka muttai" (Crow egg)
and the second was "Inside out". (Interesting/funny-moments non-plot spoilers ahead!)"Kaaka muttai" is a movie about two kids living in a Chennai slum. When a new pizza store opens in the neighborhood, they want one and decide to save up (300Rs=~6$) for it. The story revolves around the little schemes they do to get the pizza and whether money was all they needed to get it."Inside out" is a Pixar creation and about what goes on in a girl's head when she moves to SF from Minnesota- the typical struggles of a regular kid who moves to a new place and faces change. of course, the main brainwave (no pun intended) was in showing her emotions as quirky characters in her brain who are trying to control her actions- and how they interplay as she eases in.